Although these solar candles are common on ebay, they seem hard to find in a realistic warm white colour. Fortunately it turns out to be quite easy to swap the LED out.
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I have one of those with a lihium coin cell, no solar. When you connect a speaker in the the batteryline it plays "Fur Elise" There is a music chip inside that they use to drive the led. It was a 4 pack with aluminium cups.
I have similar thing running flickering solar lanterns but it uses XY806 chip instead and has just single resistor on board.
Why is it that White flicker LED's used in conjunction with a YX8018 set up work fine, yet Yellow & Warm White don't?
good morning who is factory produce?
You can get yellow/orange on AliExpress.
It is a Chinesy trap and you fell for it Big Clive, they send all the candle lights to you and they know it bugs you so much you change them for them evil laugh insert here …………………
I knew you would replace that with a warm white it was in your voice you were not happy with it LOL you are getting predictable.
Yeah, thanks! I just tried to replace an ordinary LED from solar garden light with a flickering teacandle LED because it's pins were corroded and broke. And that raised the question why it does not work. I searched for a "flickering tea candle LED datasheet with internal schematic"… to no avail though. I ended up putting the flickering yellow one in parallel with an ordinary non-flickering white one. It kind of works… but both flicker 😛 . And this raised the second question: Why?
Does anyone has the internal schematic of the flickering LED? Bigclive gave the answer to the first question. Thanks!
free energy confirmed! the led is over the solar cell
If you wanted to make it waterproof, could you not just pot it with epoxy/resin/silicone?
In America we have most of our candles like that with warm white LED's so I find it odd that most of the ones you have are cold white
I think 'cool white' LED's should be banned …..they look awful on Christmas tree's as well .
bright white is awful
As far as i measured, anything but clear glass will absorb allmost all of sunlight going to the solar cell…
and clear plastic or glass isnt that much better, without antireflex coating i measured bout 30-50% reduction inpower if you cover solar cells with CLEAR glass, and over 60% less power with CLEAR plastic (from cd case)…